Teaching Quotes · Page 42

“If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can poison your life.”

— Bryant McGill

Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.

— C. J. Mahaney

“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.”

— Amit Kalantri

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

— Winston Churchill

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

— Nelson Mandela

We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

— William Ernest Hocking

To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

— Alan Wolfe

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

— Peter Eisenman

Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities... We must…

— Henrietta Mears

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain…

— Anonymous

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented…

— Richard P. Feynman

My mother is teaching me Indian recipes. I'll go to the market, get everything fresh, have a glass of red wine, and…

— Sendhil Ramamurthy

“For me, education—both teaching and learning—is about building relationships and developing rapport with students, with parents, and with faculty.”

— Carlos Heleno

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a…

— Kathleen Hanna

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an…

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their…

— Imogen Cunningham

The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many…

— David O. McKay

In the world of comics, Jack Kirby and Will Eisner may have been more influential artists, but Joe Kubert was its most…

— Mark Waid

I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is…

— Alice Walker

Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with…

— Eckhart Tolle

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge…

— Criss Jami

Every time you have a crisis in a country you have an extreme wing coming up and proposing solutions. The way to…

— Costa-Gavras

...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as…

— Leroy S Rouner

“An effective educator who can embrace the ever-changing teaching and learning environment, maintain resilience and strength under this pressure, dynamically participate in…

— Carlos Heleno

“The main thing is to teach students psychology without making them psychos.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Oh God, forgive me for the hateful thoughts, because I love them, these brutal, disarming bastards, I love them …”

— E.R. Braithwaite

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

— Utah Phillips

“Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways.”

— Bryant McGill

“..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.”

— Jeff Anderson

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

— Cynthia Lewis

I started teaching when I was in my 20s because Lee Strasberg asked me to, and he didn't do that with a…

— Martin Landau

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

— A. J. Liebling

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

— Hyman Bass

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

— M. Scott Peck

Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

— Evan Esar

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

— Edmund Burke

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

— John Steinbeck

Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.

— John Taylor Gatto

In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged.

— Dennis Lindley

I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.

— Barack Obama